Thursday, February 16, 2012

Though the good people at snopes.com long ago clarified the delightful rumors about Van Halen's legendary tour rider that demanded the band not be exposed to any brown M&Ms, the story - like a lot of stories, I imagine - is more fun when David Lee Roth tells it. While it falls short of being an apocryphal tale of rock star divadom gone berserk, it's still an entertaining yarn. I like to watch this while pretending that Diamond Dave is giving a lecture on Contract Law to an awestruck1L class, maybe at Pepperdine. Bet it'd be a lot more fun than Zman remembers his first year.

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My Contracts class was fun because my professor was remarkably good looking, by law school standards. I note that "law school hot" is just one notch above "prison hot," but she was pretty good looking nonetheless.

I was reading this article about Mitt Romney using revisionist history regarding his advocating against the GM bailout. Whatever points might have resonated with me were completely lost because I am so juvenile.

The first individual they quote in the article is Bernie Porn of EPIC-MRA, a Lansing-based research company. Seriously . . . Bernie Porn??

I chuckled for several paragraphs about what Porn thinks of Mitt Romney, retaining nothing. Just when I was back on track, they quoted someone else: Tony Fratto, a Republican strategist who was an aide to President George W. Bush.

The news is making me laugh today. I was scanning Google News headlines and clicked on a link to an article about Peyton Manning. As I got to the end of the article, I was thinking that it was one of the most worthless pieces I'd ever read on washingtonpost.com. It basically said nothing at all, just vapid words on a page. I'd scrolled down past the author's name and picture at the top, but at the end of the article, things made more sense.

I swear one of these days I'm going to take dictation of Arrington's interviews on The FAN. I think Dave would be especially offended (SOD notwithstanding). He typically uses 100 words to say, for example, "How do you feel about playing for Coach Shanahan?" He also likes to switch from first to third person during his hypotethicals. It is a project to follow and not one I'm usually up for.

I can definitely verify Igor's Gary Carter comment. As I was a rabid (at that time) Cardinal fan and despised Carter. My least favorite Met of that era. I also happened to fear & respect him. Great, great player and a reportedly even better guy. Sad day.